Graduating in 2000 with a Journalism and Media degree when SC&I was known as the School of Communication, Information and Library Science (SCILS), Salama started her career as a journalist at WNBC-TV in New York.

Jay Liebowitz, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Princeton Lightwave, was in search of some interns well-versed in digital marketing to help him reposition his company as a leading supplier of technology for driverless cars. He contacted SC&I in the hopes of finding some valuable talent and posted his internship opportunity on SC&I's Career Services website.